Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn
Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn
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Prospect Park West
A Novel

Author: Amy Sohn

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 13 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/15/2009

Synopsis

Brooklyn's famed neighborhood of Park Slope has it all: the sprawling, majestic Prospect Park; acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones; and progressive values. The more upwardly mobile New Yorkers discover its virtues, the more that claiming a stake in Park Slope becomes a competitive sport.

In the park, the coffee shops, and the playgrounds of the neighborhood, four women's lives collide one long, hot Brooklyn summer. Melora Leigh, a two-time Oscar-winning actress, frustrated with her career and the pressures of raising her adoptive toddler, feels the seductive pull of kleptomania; Rebecca Rose, missing the robust sex life of her pre-motherhood days, begins a dangerous flirtation with a handsome local celebrity; Lizzie O'Donnell, a former lesbian (or "hasbian"), wonders why she is still drawn to women in spite of her sexy husband and adorable son; and Karen Bryan Shapiro finds herself split between two powerful obsessions: her four-year-old son's well-being and snagging the ultimate three-bedroom apartment in a well-maintained P.S. 321-zoned co-op building. As the women's paths intertwine (and sometimes crash), each must struggle to keep her man, her sanity, and her play dates.

About Amy Sohn

Amy Sohn is the New York Times bestselling author of Run Catch Kiss, My Old Man, and Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell, the bestselling companion guide to television's Sex and the City. She has been a columnist at New York magazine and has also written for the Nation, Harper's Bazaar, the New York Times, and Playboy. She lives in Brooklyn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fredrik on July 18, 2024

When I first read this, the year after it came out, I took it as a slice of life - a kind of life that had little or nothing to do with my own. At the time, I had just started grad school, and was in the midst of rescuing myself from one of the darkest periods of my life, which is saying something.......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on March 24, 2016

This novel was surprisingly good despite the fact that it has an average of 2.75 stars here on Goodreads. That's why I went into it with very low expectations. I thought it sounded funny and like something I would like, and I did! This book follows four different mothers who live in Brooklyn and who......more

Goodreads review by Blair on May 20, 2013

I chose this book randomly from the library. I should have looked more closely, because it wasn't what I expected it to be. I expected something smarter, something more real. This book was pretty salacious and smutty. There's nothing wrong with that, I guess, but it's not the kind of book I usually......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on October 03, 2009

It's about mommyhood in the neighborhood where I work. Of course I was going to read it (#37 on BPL's hold-list)! PPW is chock-full of satire and snark, and for the first 100 pages or so I found myself smirking at least twice before turning to the next page. Now most of the parents I interact with a......more

Goodreads review by Joya on September 01, 2010

The premise of the book is great and and first glance I could see why SJP would consider it a great find for TV but the meat of the story... well it's like when you get a soy hot dog... as much as it seems to be legit it's just not real meat. The writing was all over the place and not very easy to f......more

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